If you are thinking about it on paper, the bus running every half hour doesn't sound so bad, until you're waiting at the stop and you miss a bus or it's delayed. Then you're waiting a very, very long time. To people who never take transit, that's probably fine. Why do you care. To people who only take transit, they're expecting it, it's baked in their lives. But the important part, what really impacts our cities, is what happens to people for whom transit is an option.

The spiral goes like this. You go to take the bus instead of driving, thinking "I'm going to o have a couple drinks" or "I don't want to worry about parking where I'm going." So you take bus. First bus is right on time. But then you transfer from your neighborhood line to the line that takes you where you actually want to go. And your bus is delayed. And it only comes every 30 minutes. And then you're waiting, 40 minutes later, wondering where your bus is, knowing you could have driven there in 20 minutes.

Why would you ever chose to take a bus again? The bus made you waste precious time on your day off just sitting there. So next time you drive. Ridership goes down. When the transit authority asks for more money for more buses and more drivers, people point to the ridership numbers and say "why should we pay for this instead of paying for our schools/police/baseball stadium/parks/police again (let's be real that's who's taking all the money)?" If we want to increase ridership we need to actually design and fund functional transit networks. If we want people to actually ride the bus we need to make it a better option than driving, which means reliable service, which you don't get with a bus every 30 minutes.

Every 15 minutes, everywhere, all of the time.

The amount of books I’ve read, work I’ve done, Duolingo lessons I’ve completed, and LSAT problems I’ve studied while waiting on public transit is astronomical.

You really do just “bake it in.” In Large Metropolitan City and want to ride public transit to the town less than 20 miles away? It’ll take almost two hours, and that’s not counting the inevitable random Friday during rush hour and Mercury is in Gatorade so your bus is 20 minutes late if it comes at all delay. God help you if you want to take the same route Saturday or Sunday afternoon (it isn’t running).

I live in a city that’s pretty accessible with public transit. I don’t have a car, and I don’t mind not having one.

But if I didn’t actively fill my inevitable-mass-transit delays with work and schoolwork, I’d go insane.

I drive to work because of this. I have to walk to the bus then walk to the train then walk to work, which all takes over an hour. The bus only comes once every thirty minutes, the train every fifteen. If either of them are a little late or a little early, I'm fucked, waiting a long time, possibly up to 30 or 45 minutes in the heat or cold or train. Or I can drive to work in 25 minutes.

I think I read that studies show that people only wait 10 minutes for transit. Any longer and they drive

as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan

and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.

“ #okay but can any of y'all even pronounce your own town names tho? #bye”

yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones

“#But are you aware your language literally looks like a potato rolled across a keyboard”

fun fact: for decades children were beaten for speaking welsh in school, even in areas where english was barely spoken, because the government decided in 1847 that the language made people lazy and immoral

fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time

fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected

(quietly cheers in support of the Welsh, and your language sounds beautiful, too)

drag them, wales!

Go Wales

the thing people need to get through their heads is what the original statement is:

W is a vowel, and LL and FF are single letters not two Ls or two Fs. Saying LL is two letters is as dumb as saying W is two letters just because it looks like two Vs.

We have a different alphabet, it just looks a lot like the english one.

Welsh is, in addition, one of the oldest surviving indo-European languages. It dates back as far as 4,000 years and is one of the few surviving Celtic languages. 

HELL YES WELSH.

I will die on this hill. Languages are such a vitally important part of culture. The death of a language is a horrific and irreversible tragedy.

I stand with everyone who knows and defends their native language, and we all need to support speakers of indigenous languages. I wish I was a polyglot like my grandmother. I would absolutely start picking up declining indigenous languages just to help protect them.

I am thrilled to see all the efforts to maintain the Welsh, Irish, and Scottish languages. And making fun of them is honestly disgusting. It does not matter how you think it sounds as an outsider. Mocking people’s culture and language is gross. Fuck that shit. Especially when doing so is playing into an ongoing effort of colonialism and cultural genocide. The British government is still trying to destroy the Welsh identity. Mocking the Welsh language is an act of complicity with genocide.

Today in Dracula: Local lawyer lives out every lawyer's fantasy of whacking their worst client with a shovel.

amazing

Why were they empty?

they’re meant to be investment properties, bought, left empty, and then sold a year or few later for huge profit as housing values continue to rise. it’s a massive part of the bc housing bubble, and why despite so much new construction it’s still so difficult to find rental housing

the fact that these landlords are panicking because they might have to actually use their housing properties as housing rather than finance capital is deeply funny

It should be more than a 1% tax rate though. I want it to be 100%. Torture them.

So this article is from 2017. Wanna know how it worked?

So, fuck yeah it helps! Reduced empty homes, they’re raising the tax, AND using it to help fund affordable housing.

It’s a start.

when something cool happens but you cant say anything to anyone so youre just

What happened?

Im glad that this has reached many people who have signed NDAs

ur first and last recent emojis are ur gender now. mine is 🅱👨‍❤‍💋‍👨

🤦🏻‍♀️💵 this feels right

🐷🤬

… my gender is public defender lmao

cop shows are like "dammit! we would have caught babyeater mike by now if people didn't have rights,"

I will mash that Reblog button every single time this shows up on my dash. I spent a lot of years martyring myself for “the needs of the business.” Young people? Don’t fucking do it. They don’t care about you, you are a “resource,” not a human being. I can’t say this strongly enough: see to your self-care!

ADHD Attention and Memory

does anyone else hate that work takes up like 90% of your life and you literally are always working and have to form plans and important things and even seeing friends or eating meals around work. it's always just work. im spending my life just being At Work. i don't have time for hobbies or for seeing friends bc it’s always Work. like two days off a week isn't even enough because my days off aren't consecutive so i just spend those days exhausted or doing errands or house chores. there is not enough Time. all the time goes to Work. WHY IS LIFE THIS WAY. humans were not meant for this

Today’s niche IP law meme brought to you by the I-hate-trademarks crowd

Guess who signed up for an international trademark course 🙃 I am going to be in a hell of my own making from next month on 🙃

Attorneys who bring their paralegals/assistants to court, why?

Would you please tell me (a layman who just started following you a few days ago) why you shouldn't do that?

Personally I think its tacky, and its really annoying when a paralegal tries to argue with me off the record.

​Me, if one of our lawyers actually took me to court with them

reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future

I reblog  the money pigeon because I love him.

All rapidly approaching our 30s, my friends in the group chat are starting to realise that people our age are getting married and actually having kids on purpose. Someone remarked that it's starting to feel like peer pressure to also move forward in life. I had to say that it only counts as "moving forward" if that's the direction you wanted to go in the first place.

I mean fuck, I'm 29 and I've already avoided all the mistakes my parents made in their lives. Not marrying someone I don't even get along with, being stuck like that for 10 years, and then instead of getting a divorce or going to therapy, deciding to have kids with someone who doesn't even like kids. And I've never regretted not doing any of that.